Male aspies and playing soccer in competition

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Judging by my own experience...

Is it common for male aspies to completely suck at soccer compared to NTs no matter what?

Did anyone else here had an extremely rough time in soccer games during sports lessons for school for example?

I think this is what made my peers TRULY hate me for the rest of the year(s).

You're not a man to them if you can't properly play a ball, let alone a human.

Anyone else had experience with this?

Yes, definitely. I had exactly the same experience at school. Not only soccer but also basketball etc, too. And I agree this kind of weakness does affect the way others see/treat you. They treat you like a loser and your self-esteem is affected very badly. This is one of my most horrible memories from school years.

football is seen as a mega traditional,macho sport so theres always some twat spouting off about someone being gay/a girl etc because their gross motorskills suck.
this type of abuser also rants about womens football being to slow,boring and crap.

its not good to take long term hits to self esteem but remember everyone has weaknesses and strengths, perhaps are good with using a computer for example; whilst they havent got a fking clue.

if are actualy interested in playing football,why not have a look around for a aspie or mixed spectrum or a disabled team?
will usualy find people with similar abilities can relate to and disabled people dont tend to b***h about each other.
am not aspie but do suck at football because of executive function,LD,the sensory system;especialy proprioception and a host of other crap, however am a special olympics club athlete and trying to get involved in a low functioning friendly wheelchair sports team as special olympics clubs offer this few and far between in cheshire, wheel chair sports in general [not just in the SO] are actualy open to able bodied people to because everyone plays on an equal footing so this might be a alternative option perhaps to any aspies who want to play ball based sports.

also,if theres any aspies/HFAs in manchester or cheshire,check out manchester city and manchester uniteds community clubs for people with disabilities,they both run the clubs in their own training grounds in carrington.
they are for male and female but not severe autism/low functioning friendly as all of us have not been able to be accomodated by them but theyd be worth a go for anyone into sports who want to have somewhere that can accomodate their difficulties, the support staff here had been desperate for it to work out because they said they wanted to be able to look at the legs of the manchester city footballers...what a weird thing to want to look at.

In the USA, it was mainly softball (baseball with a slightly larger and softer ball) that that the sport kids were expected to excel at when i was that age. Of course i was unable to swing at and hit a ball pitched to me nor throw it for any considerable distance so that escalated my troubles at school. Soccer was rarely played at all for school activities at that time as it was consider a start-up sport at that time.